Biologist fights malaria parasite

A team of molecular biologists, jointly led by Clemson University professor Jim Morris, was awarded a $151 thousand grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify new compounds with anti-malaria activity for a deadly parasite species that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. According to the World Health Organization, there were about 207 million cases of malaria in 2012 and an estimated 627 thousand deaths. The organization states that most deaths occur among children living in Africa where a child dies every minute from the disease.